Cross-linguistic Onomatopoeias - Animal Sounds

Bird Singing

In Albanian ciu-ciu
In Arabic siqsiq سِقسِق,gharid (to chirp) غِرد, ziw ziw ziw زِيد زِيد زِيد
In Armenian "ճիւ ճիւ," jiv jiv
In Basque (Euskara), txio txio
In Bosnian, čip čip
In Bulgarian, chik-chirik чик-чирик
In Catalan, piu piu
In Chinese, Mandarin jī jī zhā zhā 叽叽喳喳
In Czech, píp píp, cvrliki
In Danish, pip pip
In Dutch, twiet twiet, tjierp, tjielp, tsjilp
In English, chirp chirp, tweet tweet, cheep cheep, peep peep
In Estonian, siuts siuts, siit siit, tsirr tsirr, sirts sirts, siu siu
In Finnish, tsirp tsirp, tviit, piip piip, ti-ti-tyy (Great Tit)
In French, cui cui, piou piou
In German, piep piep /peep, peep/, tschiep
In Greek, tsiu tsiu τσίου τσίου
In Hebrew, tsif tsif צִיף־צִיף, tswits tswits צְוִיץ־צְוִיץ
In Hindi, cheh cheh
In Hungarian, csip-csirip
In Icelandic, "bíbí"
In Indonesian, "cit-cit"
In Italian, cip cip, pio pio (chick)
In Japanese, it varies: (chick) ピヨピヨ (piyo piyo), ひいひい (hī, hī), chun chun チュンチュン
In Korean, jjek jjek 짹짹
In Latvian, čiu čiu, čiv čiv
In Lithuanian, čik čirik, čyru vyru
In Macedonian, churulic churulic чурулик чурулик
In Malayalam, "coo coo"
In Polish, ćwir ćwir, fiu-fiu (and others)
In Portuguese, piu piu
In Romanian, cip cirip, piu piu
In Russian, chiric-chiric чирик-чирик, chic-chiric чик-чирик, chiv-chiv чив-чив
In Sinhalese, kumu kumu කුමු-කුමු
In Slovak, píp píp, čvirik, čvirik
In Slovene, čiv čiv
In Spanish, pío, pío
In Swedish, kvitt, kvitt
In Tagalog, twit twit twit
In Tamil, koo, koo
In Thai, จิ๊บ ๆ (chip chip)
In Turkish, cik cik /dʒik dʒik/
In Ukrainian, t'okh-t'okh тьох-тьох, fit'-fit' фіть-фіть
In Vietnamese, chíp chíp

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